Kindergarten (K) and First Grade (1st) Core Suggested Reading List

Literature Suggestions for K-1

·     Little Bear (An I Can Read Book)A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog (Boy, Dog, Frog) Mercer Mayer

·     Are You My Mother? P.D. Eastman

·     Green Eggs and Ham  Dr. Seuss

·     Put me in the Zoo  Robert Lopshire

·     Frog and Toad Together (I Can Read Picture Book) Arnold Lobel

·     Owl at Home (I Can Read Book 2) Arnold Lobel

·     Pancakes for Breakfast Tomie dePaola

·     Hi! Fly Guy (Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book (Awards)) Tedd Arnold

Poetry Suggestions for K-1

·     “As I Was Going to St. Ives,” Anonymous

·     “Mix a Pancake,” Christina Rossetti

·     “Singing-Time,” Rose Fyleman

·     “Halfway Down”  A.A. Milne

·     “Drinking Fountain” Marchette Chute

·     “Poem” Langston Hughes

·     “Wouldn’t You?” John Ciardi

·     “By Myself”  Eloise Greenfield

·     “Covers” Nikki Giovanni

·     “It Fell in the City” Eve Merriam

·     “Celebration” Alonzo Lopez

·     “Two Tree Toads”

Informational Texts Suggestions for K-1

·     A Tree Is a Plant (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science) Clyde Robert Bulla

·     My Five Senses (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1) Aliki

·     Starfish (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science) Edith Thacher Hurd

·     A Weed is a Flower: The Life of George Washington Carver Aliki

·     Truck  Donald Crews

·     I Read Signs (Reading Rainbow Books) Tama Hoban

·     Let’s Find Out About Ice Cream  Mary Ebeltoft Reid

·     “Garden Helpers,” National Geographic Young Explorers

·     “Wind Power,” National Geographic Young Explorers

Read-Aloud Stories for K-1 (Adult reading to child)

·     The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Books of Wonder) L. Frank Baum

·     Little House in the Big Woods Laura Ingalls Wilder

·     Mr. Popper’s Penguins (Paperback) Richard and Florence Atwater

·     Finn Family Moomintroll Tove Jansson

·     A Story, a Story Gail E. Haley

·     The Paper Crane (Reading Rainbow Book) Molly Bang

·     Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China  Ed Young

·     Family Pictures, 15th Anniversary Edition / Cuadros de Familia, Edición Quinceañera Carmen Lomas Garza

·     Tomas and the Library Lady  Pat Mora

·     Kitten’s First Full Moon Kevin Henkes

Read-Aloud Poetry for K-1 (Adult reading to child)

·     “The Fox’s Foray,” Anonymous

·     “Over in the Meadow,” John Langstaff

·     “The Owl and the Pussycat,” Edward Lear

·     “April Rain Song”  Langston Hughes

·     “Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin,” Lloyd Moss

Read-Aloud Informational Texts for K-1 (Adult reading to child)

·     A Year at Maple Hill Farm  Alice and Martin Provensen

·     Fire! Fire! Gail Gibbons

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·     Follow the Water from Brook to Ocean (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) Arthur Dorros

·     Water, Water Everywhere  Cynthia Overbeck and Mark Rauzon

·     Earthworms  Claire Llewellyn

·     What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? (Caldecott Honor Book) Robin Page and Steve Jenkins

·     From Seed to Pumpkin (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 1) (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1) Wendy Pfeffer

·     Amazing Whales! (I Can Read Book 2) Sarah L. Thomson  

·     How People Learned to Fly (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) True Kelley and Fran Hodgkins

Second Grade and Third Grade Common Core Suggested Reading List

·     My Father’s Dragon  Ruth Stiles Gannett

·     “The Fire Cat,” Esther Averill

·     Amos and Boris  William Steig

·     The Treasure  Uri Shulevitz

·     The Stories Julian Tells  Ann Cameron

·     Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan

·     Henry and Mudge:  The First Book of Their Adventures  Cythia Rylant

·     Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens

·     The Raft Jim LaMarche

·     Poppleton in Winter  Cynthia Rylant

·     The Lighthouse Family: The Storm  Cynthia Rylant

·     The One-Eyed Giant  Mary Pope Osborne

·     Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa   Erica Silverman

Poetry

·     “Autumn,” Emily Dickinson

·     “Who Has Seen the Wind?” Christina Rossetti

·     “Afternoon on a Hill,” Edna St. Vincent Millay

·     “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”  Robert Frost

·     “Something Told the Wild Geese”  Rachel Field

·     “Grandpa’s Stories”  Langston Hughes

·     “A Bat is Born”  Randall Jarrell

·     “Knoxville, Tennessee”  Nikki Giovanni

·     “Weather”  Eve Merriam

·     “Eating While Reading”  Gary Soto

Informational Texts

·     A Medieval Feast  Aliki

·     From Seed to Plant  Gail Gibbons

·     Bats: Creatures of the Night  Joyce Milton

·     Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions Around the World  Selby Beeler

·     Art around the World  Heather Leonard

·     Martin Luther King and the March on Washington  Frances E. Ruffin

·     So You Want to Be President?  Judith St. George

·     Crittercam  Andrew  Einspruch

·     Boy, We Were Wrong About Dinosaurs  Kathleen V. Kudlinski

·     Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11  Brian Floca  

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·     Where Do Polar Bears Live? Sarah L. Thomson

Read-Aloud Stories

·     How the Camel Got His Hump Rudyard Kipling

·     The Thirteen Clocks  James Thurber

·     Charlotte’s Web  E.B. White

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·     The Cricket in Times Square  George Selden

·     The Search for Delicious, Natalie Babbitt

·     Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis

·     Sign Painter  Allen Say

Read-Aloud Poetry

·     “The Jumblies,” Edward Lear

·     “The Pied Piper of Hamelin,” Robert Browning

·     “Your World,” Georgia Douglas Johnson

·     “The Song of the Jellicles”  T.S. Elliot

·     “Fireflies,” Paul Fleischman

Read-Aloud Informational Texts

o     Lincoln: A Photobiography Russell Freedman

o     The Story of the Ruby Bridges   Robert Coles

o     A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder  Walter Wick

o     If the World Were a Village:  A Book about the World’s People  David J. Smith

o     Ah, Music   Aliki

o     The Museum Book: A Guide to Strange and Wonderful Collections  Jan Mark

o     What the World Eats  Faith D’Aluisio

o     Wild Tracks!   A Guide to Nature’s Footprints

o     14 Cows for America   Carmen Agra Deedy

Fourth Grade and Fifth Grade Common Core Suggested Reading List

Literature

·     Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland   Lewis Carroll

·     The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett

·     The Black Stallion Walter Farley

·     The Little Prince  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

·     Tuck Everlasting  Natalie Babbitt

·     Zlateh the Goat Isaac Bashevis Singer

·     M.C. Higgins, the Great Virginia Hamilton

·     The Birchbark House   Louise Erdrich

·     Bud, Not Buddy  Christopher Paul Curtis

·     Where the Mountain Meets the Moon  Grace Lin

Poetry

·     “The Echoing Green,” William Blake

·     “The New Colossus,” Emma Lazarus

·     “Casey at the Bat,” Ernest Lawrence Thayer

·     “A Bird Came Down the Walk,” Emily Dickinson

·     “Fog,” Carl Sandburg

·     “Dust of Snow”  Robert Frost

·     “Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf”  Roald Dahl

·     “They Were My People”  Grace Nichols

·     “Words Free As Confetti,” Pat Mora

Informational Texts

o     Discovering Mars: The Amazing Story of the Red Planet  Melvin Berger

o     Let’s Investigate Marvelously Meaningful Maps   Madelyn Wood Carlisle

o     Hurricanes: Earth’s Mightiest Storms   Patricia Lauber

o     The Kid’s Guide to Money: Earning It, Saving It, Spending It, Growing It, Sharing It  Steve Otfinoski

o     Toys!: Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions   Don Wulffson

o     Good Pet, Bad Pet  Elizabeth Schleichert

o     Ancient Mound Builders   E. Barrie Kavash

o     About Time: A First Look at Time and Clocks   Bruce Koscielniak

o     England the Land  Erinn Banting

o     A History of US   Joy Hakim

o     My Librarian Is a Camel: How Books Are Brought to Children Around the World   Margriet Ruurs

o     Horses   Seymour Simon

o     Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea  Sy Montgomery

o     Volcanoes  Simon Seymour

o     We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball   Kadir Nelson

o     Kenya’s Long Dry Season  Nellie Gonzalez Cutler

o     Seeing Eye to Eye   Leslie Hall

o     Telescopes Colin A. Ronan

o     Underground Railroad  Henrietta Buckmaster